Kenderesi Tibor Quotes

Even those with unspendable fortunes only have one mind, one mouth, two ears, two eyes and one pleasure station. There's only so much fun you can take. ~ Tibor Fischer

I don't take much notice of reviews now - obviously you'd like to have straight worship but you're never going to get that. ~ Tibor Fischer

Halfway across town, Father Tibor Kasparian lay on the long hard cement cot that was what this jail cell had for a bed and wished he had a book. It could be any book. He didn't really think he could read right now, but it always made him feel better, and calmer, and more sane, to hold a book. He had never been able to understand people who did not read. He had never been able to understand how they held on to themselves. ~ Jane Haddam

You don't really have to go anywhere in particular in New York City to have a good time. In every part of town, there's always something going on. It helps to know people there, too, because everything changes so fast, and they will be able to point out what's hot this month. ~ Tibor Fischer

I always consider every place worth exploring once- just in case there's a thirty foot flaming sign divulging the secret of life, that no one has told me about. ~ Tibor Fischer

Let's face it: we live at a time when government is less and less powerful, less and less effective, and the agent of social change, at least for the immediate future, is the corporation. ~ Tibor Kalman

Pictures are so good at giving people information that they're not looking for. ~ Tibor Kalman

I'm not against beauty, it just sounds boring to me. ~ Tibor Kalman

New York City has fantastic restaurants and, unlike London, a lot of the best restaurants are relatively cheap. ~ Tibor Fischer

Opening the fridge door, I found a rat eating the cheese. My dealings with rodents, particularly those tagged verminous, have been few, but generally the pattern has been one of man, the boss, the caretaker of creation, the namer, appearing and the lower orders hitting the road. ~ Tibor Fischer

It is only within a free society that the crucial moral features of human life can be protected and preserved ~ Tibor R. Machan

I'm not as good a writer as I'd like to be; therefore, I like to use images to tell stories. ~ Tibor Kalman

The impossible lives next door to the possible; people ring its door bell by accident all the time. ~ Tibor Fischer

Fascism is [ ... ] arbitrary rule by a charismatic head of state. ~ Tibor R. Machan

Gyuri had dropped church much in the same way he had stopped believing in Santa Claus; there came a point where it was impossible to take it seriously. ~ Tibor Fischer

I'm not the most prolific writer in the world, and, sadly, writing a novel involves a lot of effort. ~ Tibor Fischer

We live in a society and a culture and an economic model that tries to make everything look right. Look at computers. Why are they all putty-colored or off-fucking-white? You make something off-white or beige because you are afraid to use any other color – because you don't want to offend anybody. But by definition, when you make something no one hates, no one loves it. So I am interested in imperfections, quirkiness, insanity, unpredictability. That's what we really pay attention to anyway. We don't talk about planes flying; we talk about them crashing. ~ Tibor Kalman

Good designers are no longer satisfied in taking the manuscript from someone and making it look nice. One of the things that I've tried to do is move from being a designer to a content provider. ~ Tibor Kalman

When I was 20, journalists would ask me what I would do when I retire from waterpolo. For me this is not just a five- or ten-year-period in my life. This is life itself. ~ Tibor Benedek

Once you've been backstage at a theater, the theater is never the same for you. Once you've noticed the crack in the vase, the vase is never the same for. Once you've seen a friend do something appalling, the friendship is never the same. That does not mean you won't go to the theater, or keep the vase or the friend. You can choose. ~ Tibor Fischer

What is said determines who listens and who understands. Graphic design is a language, but graphic designers are so busy worrying about the nuances - accents, punctuation and so on - that they spend little time thinking about what the words add up to. I'm interested in using our communication skills to change the way things are. ~ Tibor Kalman

We might not want to share our food or our money, but we do want to share our judgement. We want others to think we have more fun.But we need meeting-places of the mind. A Kilimanjaro of spirit that we've all visited so we can say of other things: it's shorter, or taller, or the same height as Kilimanjaro. ~ Tibor Fischer

Waterpolo is my life. Our relationship is that of predetermination I'll never be better at anything than waterpolo and that is why it is my duty to pursue this sport as long as I can, and to the best of my abilities. ~ Tibor Benedek

The way British publishing works is that you go from not being published no matter how good you are, to being published no matter how bad you are. ~ Tibor Fischer

One of the reasons why I don't write the same kind of book again and again is that I get bored very easily, so I like to make things interesting for myself. ~ Tibor Fischer

Some years ago, I fired my agent, Andrew Wylie, alias The Jackal. I want to stress this wasn't an amicable parting of the ways or a hankering on my part for fresh representation. I fired him because his agency wasn't doing enough for me. ~ Tibor Fischer

The greatest danger of being gifted, is that you may never learn how to make an effort. ~ Tibor Fischer

No one wants a masterpiece knocking around when your own book is looking for attention. ~ Tibor Fischer

The perfect state of creative bliss is having power (you are 50) and knowing nothing (you are 9). This assures an interesting and successful outcome. ~ Tibor Kalman

If you don't have an idea, all you have is style. ~ Tibor Kalman

Perfection is only chance. ~ Tibor Fischer

I never could get a proper job. ~ Tibor Fischer

Travelling is difficult, and writers tend to want to stay at home and do their work. ~ Tibor Fischer

It's like training dogs. You want the dog to obey you, but you can't have real respect for a dog that always obeys you. You want a dog that occasionally goes over the wall or bites the postman without your permission; you want to be reminded that you command a subdued yet wild animal, not a crawler. A man should be strong enough to kill you with his bare hands. ~ Tibor Fischer

I don't know why they call it life, it's just a moment with memories. ~ Tibor Fischer

When I think of Hungarian films, I think of despair and bleakness, and what's more, despair and bleakness of indefensible duration. ~ Tibor Fischer

If someone is going to permit me to make a publication that is politically and culturally progressive and not tell me to put their favorite movie stars on the cover, if I get to do what I want in an honest way - as I did in the beginning at 'Colors' - then I'm going to do it. ~ Tibor Kalman

It's what the reader thinks that counts. ~ Tibor Fischer

Some people ... cling to the idea that the photograph is an inherently real or honest image and as such is always on a different plane from an obviously subjective form of visual communication such as painting. ~ Tibor Kalman

If welfare and equality are to be primary aims of law, some people must necessarily possess a greater power of coercion in order to force redistribution of material goods. Political power alone should be equal among human beings; yet striving for other kinds of equality absolutely requires political inequality. ~ Tibor R. Machan

Many of us, I suppose, see our existences not as lives, but as life-holders, zarfs, waiting for the job, the person, the event to fill it. ~ Tibor Fischer

I went to a British Council event a while back and there were lots of German professors of literature. About half of them were convinced I had a German sense of humour and the other half were sure it was British. They are probably still arguing about it now. ~ Tibor Fischer

Everything is an experiment. ~ Tibor Kalman

Think like an artist. Dress like an insurance salesman. ~ Tibor Kalman

Most books reviews aren't very well-written. They tend to be more about the reviewer than the book. ~ Tibor Fischer

You've got to try everything once, except those things you don't like, or that involve a lot of effort and getting up early. ~ Tibor Fischer

Laziness always wins. ~ Tibor Fischer

No amount of intelligence can save you from stupidity. ~ Tibor Fischer